food-box
- Museum number
- EA51812
- Description
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Low rectangular wooden box, painted black, with a flat lid. Lid made of 5 joined pieces with one piece missing from the corner. Edge of lid and one side of box have two attached knobs for sealing with cord. Contains four linen-wrapped mummified ducks with joints of meat.
- Dimensions
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Height: 17 centimetres
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Length: 61 centimetres
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Width: 45.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- J H Taylor, 'The Burial Assemblage of Henutmehyt: inventory, date and provenance', in W V Davies (ed), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities. A tribute to T G H James (BMOP 123) (London, 1999), 59, 63, 64, 67, pl. 21.
- Location
- On display (G63/dc9)
- Condition
- incomplete (part of lid missing); fair
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA51812
- Registration number
- 1913,0111.7
